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[Hrungr]

Ashe | Ladyinsanity ‏@ladyinsanity 

Finally get to go to the floor. #PAX

 

 

Mike Laidlaw ‏@Mike_Laidlaw 

WE WIRED UP @JessicaMerizan WITH A GOPRO AND SENT HER OUT ON THE PAX FLOOR. YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT.

 

[azarhal]

I can understand why so many people don't understand why he's in DAI, or even DA2 for that matter, simply because if you didn't play as a mage in DAO you probably don't remember him and your like "WTF's a Cullen", but obviously if the Dragon Age team put him in ALL 3 games he has to have SOME important role to play.....on a similar topic I don't understand why so many people have been complaining recently about all the cameos of old characters...don't you want to see your old buddies and hug 'em...or see your old enemies and shank 'em?

 

It doesn't mean people are going to like his role though or that BioWare concept of "important character" and the fan concept of "important character" is the same.

 

As for the cameo stuff, I can really live without them (and I found DA2 ones poorly executed). I personally think it cause the settings to become too simple when it is always the same characters that are involved.

[SkittyKitty]

I realize I'm probably not the first to say this, but how can Cullen be a companion if we've already got Cassandra, Iron Bull, and Grey Warden dude? It's possible Grey Warden dude is not a companion, but an even spread between 9 companions suggests 3 of each to me.

 

Maybe there will be important, prominent characters on our side that just aren't in the party? Maybe Cullen is that? 

 

 

I could believe Cullen would be a companion, sure, but we already have three warriors.

 

Two of those warriors are confirmed to be companions, and the Warden is virtually certain.

 

Has anyone stoped to think that maybe.  Maybe the choice's you made in past games will force you to have the warden or cullen. but not both. Say if you sided with templars in DA2 you'll get cullen in DAI. Or if you sided with the mage's ect. If you made your sibling a warden you'll get the warden.

[AlanC9]

And if you sided with the mages and your sibling wasn't a warden?

[ushae]

My thinking is that the companions will not be created around the classes, but instead will be created based on the political climate so their story and personalities have depth. Four example having Cullen would make sense based on the Templar-Mage conflict, having three different types of Mages would also give interesting possibilities e.g. Circle Mage, Tevinter and Danish .. 3 very different backgrounds.

 

I think we will ultimately end up with 4 warriors, 3 mages and 2 rogues.

[SkittyKitty]

And if you sided with the mages and your sibling wasn't a warden?

I didn't mean all of them i was just saying. If you sided with mage's or templars. it could be any of those that pick cullen or the warden. or you just get cullen no matter what ending. but you get the warden if your sibling is a warden. it's something to think about, cause they did say the choice's from past games will have more effect on DAI than in DA2

[Zerker]

Any collection of news yet?

[ElitePinecone]

Has anyone stoped to think that maybe.  Maybe the choice's you made in past games will force you to have the warden or cullen. but not both. Say if you sided with templars in DA2 you'll get cullen in DAI. Or if you sided with the mage's ect. If you made your sibling a warden you'll get the warden.

 

Hm, why those two characters in particular though? I feel like there's loads of evidence for the Grey Warden at this point, and virtually nothing for Cullen.

 

Not to mention that making two companions mutually exclusive is extremely expensive (look what happened with Bethany and Carver, they had to disappear for half the game).

[Shadow Fox]

Maybe Cullen respeced as a Rogue?

[LeicsFox]

Maybe Cullen respeced as a Rogue?

stranger things have happened

[RynJ]

Hm, why those two characters in particular though? I feel like there's loads of evidence for the Grey Warden at this point, and virtually nothing for Cullen.

 

Not to mention that making two companions mutually exclusive is extremely expensive (look what happened with Bethany and Carver, they had to disappear for half the game).

 

Isn't the fact that he's a LI a big piece of evidence in and of itself? The DA series doesn't have a history of NPC romances. That doesn't mean it WON'T happen but I would say that's evidence.

[Nocte ad Mortem]

Isn't the fact that he's a LI a big piece of evidence in and of itself? The DA series doesn't have a history of NPC romances. That doesn't mean it WON'T happen but I would say that's evidence.

Personally, I'd say being an LI is a piece of evidence, but not really enough to make me think he's in compared to the other warriors competing for the three slots.

[AresKeith]

Isn't the fact that he's a LI a big piece of evidence in and of itself? The DA series doesn't have a history of NPC romances. That doesn't mean it WON'T happen but I would say that's evidence.

 

It's evidence but it isn't a big piece of evidence

[ElitePinecone]

Isn't the fact that he's a LI a big piece of evidence in and of itself? The DA series doesn't have a history of NPC romances. That doesn't mean it WON'T happen but I would say that's evidence.

 

I don't think that the romance status is stronger as a piece of evidence than the accumulated mountain of stuff we have for the Grey Warden.

 

As in, I think it's more likely that Cullen is an NPC romance, rather than all the evidence for the Warden amounting to nothing. The former is possible, if unprecedented in DA, but the latter would be bizarre. 

[RynJ]

It's evidence but it isn't a big piece of evidence

 

I'd call it a pretty big piece of evidence. That doesn't mean the bearded warden doesn't have more evidence, though.

[bairdduvessa]

If the devs can convince me that Varric does have an important role to play in the game (that couldn't have been served by an original character) other than to bare his chest so people can swoon over him and make tumblr gifs...then I won't have a problem with him at all. Same goes for Cullen, Leliana, Alistair and other returning characters.

 

he is there as the legacy character.  Ohgren came from DAO to Awekening, Anders from DAA to Da2, and Varris from DA2 to DAI, to me it is to give the fans a sort of continuity and familiarity 

[Bond]

I'd call it a pretty big piece of evidence. That doesn't mean the bearded warden doesn't have more evidence, though.

Traynor says hi. My money is on Cullen being advisor, as well as scribe lady and leliana.

[Hrungr]

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[RynJ]

Traynor says hi. My money is on Cullen being advisor, as well as scribe lady and leliana.

 

Sure but like I said, DA doesn't have precedent for NPC romances. 

[BlackGrifon]

is there any news about the posibility of having a non-humanoid companion- something like Shale in DA:I, 

And about the Cullen being a companion just because he is a LI..... we had the option of sleping with Isabella in DA:O doesn't that make her a LI even if she was just a NPC? (personaly i prefer it if we get the warden)...then again they might turn up to be temporary companions and then become agents and representatives for the Templar and respectively Warden factions

[Bond]

Sure but like I said, DA doesn't have precedent for NPC romances. 

True, but then again ME had only Kelly which is not really a romance...At the moment i am 50/50 on 3/3/3 4/3/2 splits and i am 60/40 about whether cullen is companion or advisor (greater probability in my book) I am hoping for advisor and 3/3/3. Cassandra and Cullen become too similar gameplay wise, on top of that there will be a warden too. But then again DAO had Sten and Ogren, which at least was so different in height, personality....that their similarity in terms  of gameplay go unnoticed. 

Also, i really believe in this theory about inquisitor having three advisors (for different type of approaches with keeps and inquisiton in general..) Scribe being trade, Cullen being military and Leliiana espionage. I see Cullen forces raising bridges and destroying mines or sth.....Leliana's agents are probably the ones who poison water to take keep easily or do more sneaky stuff like that.

[Nocte ad Mortem]

True, but then again ME had only Kelly which is not really a romance...At the moment i am 50/50 on 3/3/3 4/3/2 splits and i am 50/50 about whether cullen is companion or advisor. I am hoping for advisor and 3/3/3.

PAX sources say 3/3/3 split is official, so I'd say it's more than 50/50.

[azarhal]

 we had the option of sleping with Isabella in DA:O doesn't that make her a LI even if she was just a NPC?

 

This is actually a good question. BioWare might consider any NPCs that you can sleep with a "romance", while I doubt players do...

[RynJ]

This is actually a good question. BioWare might consider any NPCs that you can sleep with a "romance", while I doubt players do...

 

I think they know the difference, considering they never called characters like DAO Isabela or Jethann "Love Interests". They know better than to use that term for someone you just sleep with once. The fact that he was announced with Cassandra, a companion LI, suggests that it will be a full on romance.

[TKavatar]

he is there as the legacy character.  Ohgren came from DAO to Awekening, Anders from DAA to Da2, and Varris from DA2 to DAI, to me it is to give the fans a sort of continuity and familiarity

Oghren turned into a bumbling drunken parody of himself ; any character development he had by the end of DAO was retconned away just like those epilogue slides , Anders became a terrorist and now it's Varric's turn.

You can see why I'm not a fan of returning characters.